Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will get control of an airline that lost $9.4 million last year and currently reports a "net worth deficiency" of $23.4 million. Merely to keep the line alive is certain to cost Hughes many millions more. And by decreeing that transactions between Hughes Tool Co. and Northeast may not exceed $100,000 a year without its specific approval, the CAB seems to have ruled out a lucrative trick that Hughes used to practice with Trans World Airlines: buying planes through Hughes Tool and then reselling them to the airline at a profit...
...ploy failed. Twenty minutes of movies helped no one to forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
...figure peaked at 94.45 in May of 1959. Japanese meteorologists point out that their last winter was very dry with rainfall registering only about half that of three years ago. They predict that when the heavy spring rains arrive, they will pull down enough fallout to equal or exceed the 1959 peak...
...authorities, including the Atomic Energy Commission, the Public Health Service and the Weather Bureau, feel sure that the 1962 fallout will probably equal or exceed the 1959 peak, but they are not alarmed. The fission energy yield of the Soviet 1958 tests was 10 to 15 megatons. The total energy of last fall's Soviet tests was much greater (170 mega tons), but most of it came from nuclear fusion, which creates little fallout. Only about 25 megatons came from nuclear fission of uranium or plutonium, and since many of the Russian tests were exploded at high altitudes, their...
...predicting that the company might earn as much as $3.75 a share this year. But under the terms of a $135 million Prudential loan, which requires General Dynamics to make up past losses before it pays out any more cash dividends, shareholders can expect dividends only after future earnings "exceed...